Drama Movies of 1940
Strange Cargo
"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Santa Fe Trail
Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a simplistic retelling of the John Brown legend, with Raymond ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
The Long Voyage Home
John Ford welded four of Eugene O'Neill's one-act plays about the sea, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, The Zone, and Moon of the Caribees, into this melancholy ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
They Drive by Night
They just don't make 'em like They Drive By Night anymore. This slam-bang Warner Bros. attraction stars George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as Joe and Paul ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Knute Rockne, All American
Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he so closely resembled the title character that, in the words of Rockne's ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
City for Conquest
There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Our Town
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town is given the Hollywood treatment in this adaptation ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
The Grapes of Wrath
The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time Oscar-winning director John Ford starred Henry Fonda as Tom ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Angels over Broadway
In the Ben Hecht-scripted Angels over Broadway. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays a ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
The Letter
William Wyler's dark and poisonous melodrama, based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel, features Bette Davis in one of her nastiest roles. The story begins in the shimmering moonlight ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Tom Brown's School Days
This Victorian-era drama is based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hughes. It follows the exploits of a young boy forced to attend a ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
The Howards of Virginia
Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was no exception, despite the ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Little Men
Little Men, Louisa May Alcott's followup to her successful novel Little Women, has never truly adapted well to ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Kitty Foyle
Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms of "Fred Astaire's partner." Others considered her a ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
This fourth entry in MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series once again stars Lew Ayres as Kildare, Laraine Day ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Three Faces West
The Refugee was the original release title for the offbeat John Wayne vehicle Three Faces West. Wayne, Sigrid Gurie and ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Dr. Christian Meets the Women
The third of six feature films based on radio's popular Dr. Christian series, Dr. Christian Meets the Women once ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Queen of the Yukon
This adventure is based on Jack London's tale of a Northwestern woman who owns a riverboat who sends her daughter to boarding school and then discovers that she cannot afford to be ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Midnight Limited
Mignight Limited takes place during an eventful nonstop train trip from ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Babies for Sale
Telecast dozens of times on cable television back in the 1980s, Columbia's Babies ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
The Courageous Dr. Christian
The second entry in RKO Radio's "Dr. Christian" series, Courageous Dr. Christian was like the first inspired by the popular radio weekly. In this one, kindly general practioner Dr. Christian (Jean Hersholt) tends to the needs ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Mad Youth
"Exploitation" king Willis Kent was both producer and director of the deathless cautionary fable Mad Youth. Because she doesn't have proper parental ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
June Night
The Swedish June Night didn't get much American play until after its star, Ingrid Bergman, was firmly entrenched in Hollywood. Ingrid plays a small-town girl who becomes romantically ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Azad
Using largely the same cast and crew from the Bombay Talkies studio as Franz Osten's numerous works, N.R. Acharya makes his directorial debut with this socially aware melodrama about the ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
Vishwamohini
Telugu filmmaker Y.V. Rao directs this satire on the Indian film industry. Purshottam (Rao) is skimming money from a talent agency run by ... [ Drama movie - 1940 ]
